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Our digital afterlife

Our digital afterlife

What happens to your online presence when you die?

Business Daily · BBC World Service

December 19, 201918m 15s

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Show Notes

What happens to your online presence when you die, and who owns your data? Manuela Saragosa speaks to Carl Ohman, a researcher in the digital afterlife from the Oxford Internet Institute, and Dr Elaine Kasket, a counselling psychologist and author of All The Ghosts In The Machine: Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age.

(Picture: Cloud in the form of a mouse cursor arrow; Credit: cinek20/Getty Images)